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Florida OIR Tells NCCI Proposed Work Comp Rate Decrease Is not Enough
In an Order issued Wednesday, Nov. 5, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty notified the National Council on Compensation...
Nov 6, 2014
Are Fee Caps Legal? Supreme Court Hears Workers' Comp Case Today
The Florida Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case today that asks the justices to decide whether the fee caps in the state’s...
Nov 5, 2014
Late-Term Medical Costs Lower for Older Workers' Comp Claimants: NCCI
Workers compensation claimants younger than 60 have higher medical claim costs for medical payments made 20 and 30 years after their...
Oct 20, 2014
Family Will Not Collect $2.4 Million for Worker’s Death
The family of a Florida construction worker who was killed by a 1-ton falling steel column cannot collect a $2.4 million judgment from...
Oct 6, 2014
Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurers Seek Bigger Rate Cut
Florida’s workers’ compensation insurers, already on record recommending an average 2.5 percent cut in rates, now say that a 3.3 percent...
Oct 2, 2014
Dozens of Identity Theft and Workers’ Compensation Fraud Arrests at Collier County Business
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater today announced that an investigation in Naples by the Florida Department of Financial...
Sep 24, 2014
Contractor Can Assert Workers' Comp Immunity: Florida Court
A Florida appeals court said Wednesday that highway maintenance contractor VMS Inc. could assert workers' compensation immunity in a...
Sep 24, 2014
New OSHA Rule Requires Reporting for Single Incidents of Severe Injuries
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued afinal rule requiring employers to notify OSHA...
Sep 15, 2014
A Made-in-Florida Construction Industry Rip-Off
The wire shouldn’t have been “hot.” But someone forgot to turn off the electrical boxes at the strip mall Joseph Barrs had been hired to...
Sep 4, 2014
Florida Court Ruling May Force Closer Look at Workers’ Comp
On Aug. 13, a Miami-Dade County Circuit Court judge declared that the state’s workers’ compensation system is unconstitutional and an...
Aug 31, 2014
NCCI Proposes Average Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease of 2.5% in Florida
Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation announced it received the 2015 Florida workers’ compensation rate filing by the National Council...
Aug 26, 2014
Court Holds Exclusive Remedy Facially Unconstitutional
I blog twice a week, usually on Mondays and Wednesdays. I have a lot of respect for those who have the energy to produce more often or...
Aug 20, 2014
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